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Ben Fairless
Joined Right to Know in 2013
I work for the OpenAustralia Foundation. I used to use this account when I was administering the site however now I use this account just to make requests and to provide suggestions to people.
All my requests are made in a personal capacity, and not on behalf of Right to Know, the OpenAustralia Foundation, or any other organisation unless specifically indicated.
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 494) (page 10)
Hi my name is Neil, as regards the online free test, this website the answers seem to have run away. I have done this test countless times, only to be...
Online Master Class
Response by NBN Co Limited to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
We attempted to issue a decision to you as seen below, and received an
automated notification that the email wa...
Dear Mr Fairless
Please see the attached decision on your request for access.
Kind regards
FOI Officer | Governance and Performance
Governance Un...
Request for mobile communications via mobile applications
Response by Minister for Home Affairs to Ben Fairless on .
** This is an automated response. Please do not reply to this email **
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Your email has been received by the Department of...
Correspondence Related to “The Juice Media”
Response by Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to Ben Fairless on .
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Hi Ben,
Please find attached your decision pack for FOI/2017/148 relating to The
Juice Media.
Kind regards,
Dr Me...
Communciations related to Right to Know
Response by Australian Taxation Office to Ben Fairless on .
Dear FOI Applicant,
Please see attachment.
Yours faithfully,
FOI Team
Dear Applicant,
A notice regarding your FOI request is located...
Use of janusSEAL and Correspondence around same
Response by Department of Home Affairs to Ben Fairless on .
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Our references: FA 16/11/00189-R1; ADF2016/65920
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your application for an Internal Review receive...
The latest reply from the ATO says, "On 23 June 2017, you were issued a notice of intention to refuse your FOI request as a ‘practical
refusal reason’...
Ridiculous calculation of charges that have no legitimate basis in fact, but are a thinly guised attempt to unlawfully frustrate access, are unfortunat...
Applying a full s 47C - Deliberative Matter exemption on a document relating to a policy on administrative access to AFP documents only makes sense if...
This comment is a repetition, in part, of a comment I made here: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/ministerial_briefing_for_alan_tu#comment-1779...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Taxation Office to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless,
The information you have requested is available on our website at
[1]https://www.ato.gov.au/assets/0/104/997/1030/543d6162-0b09...
Requests made via Right to Know
Follow up sent to Australian Taxation Office by Ben Fairless on .
I do not consent to withdraw the request. I seek information up to the date of the recent OAIC decision which I don't believe has been released....
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by South Australia Police to Ben Fairless on .
Request for mobile communications via mobile applications
Response by Minister for Defence to Ben Fairless on .
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Good afternoon Mr Fairless,
I refer to your email dated 19 October 2016 where you sought access to
inbound and outbound chats sent to...
I don't think the Department is correct here.
23 hours seems excessive to write a SQL script to dump aggregated records from a database, let alone to...
Administrative/Informal Access
Follow up sent to NSW Police Force by Ben Fairless on .
Thanks for coming back to me so quickly, much appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by Queensland Police Service to Ben Fairless on .
Good Afternoon Mr Fairless
You have not provided a telephone number to respond to, hence I am replying my email.
Information on how to apply for inf...
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by Western Australia Police to Ben Fairless on .
Good afternoon Ben
WA Police does not have any internal guidelines or procedures on what information can be released without a formal access applicati...
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by Tasmania Police to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless,
Information relating to your query can be found at police.tas.gov.au >
Information Disclosure.
Regards,
John D...
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by Victoria Police to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless
I should explain that the role of the Freedom of Information Division for Victoria Police is to receive and process requests made und...
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services to Ben Fairless on .
Good morning Ben,
I refer you to our website, see below link:
http://www.pfes.nt.gov.au/Access-to-information.aspx
I hope this is of assistance to yo...
Hi Locutus,
I don't think the department is saying they can't find anything. It looks more like, to me anyway, that they are saying 'which administra...
Centrelink New Data Matching System
Response by Services Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your email.
The department is under an obligation to protect the identity of third parties to be consulted under sect...
Law Enforcement Requests - Uber
Follow up sent to Australian Federal Police by Ben Fairless on .
Please consider this request withdrawn.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
This person's 342 annotations (page 10)
Maybe remove the exclusion you put on for plain text emails, and see what you catch with that?
External Lawyers are commonplace throughout government...
Anti-discrimination in Recruitment
Request to Department of Education, Skills and Employment by Julie Bingo. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Julie, I absolutely agree with you, however from experience I've noticed that agencies are reluctant to respond to informal requests for information, i...
Alex helped build Right to Know: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/help/credits#thanks
For the first part of your request, it's clear from news reports...
Anti-discrimination in Recruitment
Request to Department of Education, Skills and Employment by Julie Bingo. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
While the Department isn't restricted from answering your questions, generally "Freedom of Information" or FOI laws only apply to actual documents, not...
Hi Julie,
I'm not sure that the Department of the Treasury will be able to help you out here, as they generally deal with Federal matters and not Sta...
You should ask the department to send emails in plain text.
No further annotations will be allowed on this request, and I've hidden annotations made after my post which don't comply with our rules. If you have a...
Everyone,
Please don't forget about our policy on annotations:
https://www.righttoknow.org.au/help/requesting#moderation
I will allow the annotati...
Hi, you can find the email address to contact the FOI Team of the ABS outside of Right to Know here: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/body/abs/view_email...
8 minutes per page (10.5hrs for 74 pages). That sounds a bit steep in my opinion.
Using the Australian Government Solicitor calculator (a copy was po...
I've sent the below to the FOI Team:
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Hi FOI Team,
Regarding the below request, Vera Lystich (a Right to Know user) has asked me to get b...
I can confirm that Right to Know successfully delivered the email to DFAT on July 16th 2014, which was accepted by the Department's Mail server.
Australia's Worst White-Collar Crime
Request to Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions by Phillip Sweeney. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Hi Philip, to make it easier for regular users of the site, would it be possible for you to consider using a more descriptive title for each request?...
I have sent the below email to the FOI Team at the Department:
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My Name is Ben Fairless, and I volunteer with Right to Know. I wanted to get...
Vera, would you be ok with Right to Know contacting the department to offer them an upload link, or the postal address of Right to Know (then we can up...
Surely they can upload the video via email, or upload it to the RTK website (the department can contact Right To Know via contact@righttoknow.org.au fo...
Thanks for the offer of support, at the moment I wouldn't want to pursue the matter any further.
That said, just because my request was refused does...
Sorry for the confusion, but we've been advised Education Services Australia isn't formally subject to FOI. I've updated the information page to reflec...
Hi Vera,
The first email was hidden at the request of the AEC as it contained an attachment intended for someone else, and the attachment contained t...
In a nutshell, the charge amount was upheld and I withdrew the application.
Hi Tony,
The Minister for Tourism no longer exists I'm afraid.
When I go to www.tourism.gov.au I'm redirected to the Australian Trade Commission. Y...
Hi Jackson, it looks like the Department need payment in order for the remaining documents to be released. Have you made a payment or decided not to pu...
It still doesn't change the fact that an FOI request for "documents in the possession of the ATO that would confirm that Section 11 of the FOI Act does...
Your argument does not change the law. Laws aren't always fair, but the FOI process is designed to obtain information, not change the law.
even if t...
The decision that Phillip refers to is here: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/825/response/2911/attach/2/20150108%20Decision%20letter.pdf
The o...